Poor choice: of objects? Of words? Of actions? Worse off: financially? Emotionally? Legally? Were you better off in the same way that he was worse off? Is his profession relevant? Is yours? Crime involved? Sports? Bets? Gambling?

Did he forget his wallet at the scene? Which contained more money than he got away with? Were you better off specifically because he lost money? Or because of something else he did related to the loss of money? Were you present during the stick-up? Were you robbed? Were you involved in the legal proceedings?

Sheza bank? Noa shop? Yesa petrol station? Nodid he get away with any money? Nodid anyone hand him some money? Nodid he have to hand over any of his own money? YESdid he put down some money in order to pick something else up? Nolike, he was about to get away with some money and he put it down to take something which he mistakenly thought contained more? No

GalfiskDid he forget his wallet at the scene? NoWhich contained more money than he got away with? NoWere you better off specifically because he lost money? YES (good Q)Or because of something else he did related to the loss of money? NoWere you present during the stick-up? NoWere you robbed? NoWere you involved in the legal proceedings? No

Relevant which shop? did you have anything to do with the shop? Or the robber? Relevant what the robber would've done with the money, if he had gotten any? Relevant what happened after the robbery? Did he return to the shop?

The "poor choice" relevant? No, not for the termIs that "poor choice" his trying to rob a gun shop? Yes, that was the 'poor choice'. Mostly because he didn't think for a minute that gun shops are full of other people..with guns.

Puzzle Statement: Arnie failed due to a poor choice on his part and was left measurably worse off. However, I (Ves) was left much better off, as I learned a new term to describe his particular brand of failure.

We know: * Arnie is a failed robber. * His “poor choice” was in choosing to try and rob a gun store. * He used a gun and, unsurprisingly, the clerk (and nearly everyone in the store) had a gun. * Arnie had used his own money to pretend to buy something and then, while the clerk was distracted, pulled his gun. * The clerk pulled his own gun and Arnie ran away, leaving his money behind. (Sucks to be Arnie.)

HOWEVER, I (Ves) was left better off because I learned a new term to describe the events above. We are still working to determine the term.

The term:* Relates to Arnie being “worse off” and the fact he lost money in the robbery attempt. * The term is made up of common words and is not slang or jargon.

Drawn from the news blurb, “Arnie” tried to distract the clerk at a gun store by laying $40 on the counter to buy a box of bullets, then pulling a gun and demanding all the store's money. The clerk thwarted the robbery by pulling his own gun (not surprisingly, since it was a gun store) and scaring the robber off -- while the $40 remained on the counter.

The new term I learned was “negative cash-flow” robbery – a robbery which costs the would-be robber money! It seems sort of opposite the point of a robbery, but there are enough of these to merit a term to group them.